(Mt. Fuji on January 1, 2009; click to enlarge)My People, My Hands, and My Inheritance
This is the last day of the holiest three days for Japan between January 1st and 3rd.
Japanese TV stations have been broadcasting mostly foolish entertainment programs while Prime Minister Mr. Taro Aso acknowledged late last year that the world is facing an economic crisis of a "once-a-century" scale
While I was scanning some TV channels, a Pyramid-related program caught my attention. They showed corridors and rooms inside certain Pyramids of Egypt in quest of the truth, the mystery, the purpose of the Pyramid complex as well as real hidden tombs of Pharaohs.
So, let’s see some discussions about Pyramids and the Bible:
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"In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof... And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt." —Isaiah 19:19-20
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In the Midst of the Land and at the Border
Our theme text states that there would be an altar and pillar “in the midst of the land of Egypt... and at the border...” How can something be in the middle and also at the border? First of all, the Great Pyramid is a monument situated near Gizeh in Egypt. The word “Gizeh” in Arabic means “border.” Henry Mitchell, Chief Hydrographer of the United States Coast Survey discovered an additional clue to this riddle while working on a report for the Suez Canal in 1868. He noticed that the Nile Delta is pie-shaped. Plotting the sector on a map, he found that the Great Pyramid is at its exact center. This remarkable feature led him to exclaim, “That monument stands in a more important physical situation than any other building erected by man.” It is at the border of upper and lower Egypt, and it is at the border of the sector-shaped Nile Delta—yet it is in the midst of Egypt, at the Delta’s exact mathematical center.
Also of significance is an observation in that same year by Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royale of Scotland. He noted when examining the Great Pyramid’s geographical latitude and meridian on an equal-surface projection map, that the structure is perfectly situated at the exact center of the earth’s land mass. It is truly in the “midst” of the earth, and he suggested that it would be the most suitable for “zero longitude” for all nations.
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• The Great Pyramid’s unique proportions solve one of man’s most difficult mathematical challenges—the squaring of the circle. When the radius of a circle equals the height of the pyramid, then the circumference of that circle equals the perimeter of the pyramid’s base.
• The orientation of the Great Pyramid is within 3/4 inch of true north. A modern magnetic compass is usually far less accurate.
• The measurement used by the builders, the “pyramid cubit,” when divided into the base length of the Great Pyramid is 365.242 pyramid cubits. This is precisely the number for the days in one year.
http://www.biblestudents.com/endtimesarchives_sum99.cfm
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However, my concern is in the following paragraphs:
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Isa 19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
Isa 19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
Isa 19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
Isa 19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
Isa 19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
Isa 19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
Isa 19:25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
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As after the era of Caesar and Cleopatra, or specifically one generation after their era, Jesus Christ emerged in Israel which was facing a dangerous fate of being fully colonized by the Roman Empire like Egypt.
The above sections of the Bible must have tried to tell beforehand that something unusual would occur when Egypt was completely conquered by a foreign force which also would then extend its destructive power to Israel.
Nonetheless, the issue is that Christians in these 2000 years have never realized why Jesus Christ was sent to mankind when the glory of ancient Egypt completely collapsed with the death of Cleopatra under the military power of the Roman Empire.
And, why no words of Jesus Christ concerning Pyramids seem to have been allowed to remain in the Gospels is also an important issue.
It is so since the colonization of Egypt by the Roman Empire, the nation Egypt has never regained its status of the global power over 2000 years like Judaists wondering all through Europe and around the Mediterranean until 1948.
In this context, if Israel of today is allowed to exist and survive, it would need a great help from Egypt. The fates of the two nations, Egypt and Israel, seem to have been closely associated since the era of Isaiah, Caesar and Cleopatra, Jesus Christ, and the Roman Empire colonizing all the east Mediterranean regions.
Yet, ancient Egyptians who depicted various gods in the shape of combination of part of an animal and that of a human being were apparently pagans.
Such a manner of expression of devotion to gods is not overlooked. When they worshipped the sun as the sole god, they depicted the sun god in a deplorable manner as a religious expression.
The ancient Egyptian world must have been indeed smitten in this context, even if using the troops of Alexander the Great or the Roman Empire.
Or, otherwise, who can explain why the God Almighty chose Israelites, instead of ancient Egyptians, as His beloved tribe at least around 2000 B.C. when pyramid construction forever reduced to obsolescence in Egypt but Abraham and his family resolutely left Mesopotamia?
Finally, the Pyramid itself is one hieroglyphic character or concept just like the Sphinx itself is: a letter made of a physical entity. They have their own unique meanings. However it is a symbol of religious belief that never leads mankind to true spiritual freedom and truth of the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spelterini_Pyramids.jpg
Isa 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isa 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Isa 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Isa 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Isa 1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isa 1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Isa 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.